Charles Kettering Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

• You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Time, Science, Progress

• Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Thinking, Taxation

• here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

• An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Motivational, Positive

• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

  Charles Kettering

  Wisdom, Science, Discovery

• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

• The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

• It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

  Charles Kettering

  Cute, Perseverance, Motivational Sports

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

• Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

• My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Stupid, Science

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Inspiration, Science

• Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Challenges, Progress

• We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Art, Failure

• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Science, Opportunity

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

• We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

  Charles Kettering

  Future, Hard Work, Science

• A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

• Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

  Charles Kettering

  Crazy, Work, Science

• The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

  Charles Kettering

  Peace, War, Future

• Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

• People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Errors, Ideas

• Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Firsts, Honest

• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Tattoo, Art

• People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Thinking, People

• I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Research, Way

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1935). “Industrial Prospecting”

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